@article{351891, note = {Translated from the French.}, author = {Suchon, Gabrielle, and Stanton, Domna C. and Wilkin, Rebecca May. and Suchon, Gabrielle,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351891}, title = {A woman who defends all the persons of her sex selected philosophical and moral writings / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press,}, abstract = {During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (16231703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two worksTreatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them.}, recid = {351891}, pages = {1 online resource (xxvii, 383 p.) :}, address = {Chicago ; London :}, year = {2010}, }